Re: Forbes: 10 surprising 6-figure jobs

["Barry Campbell" <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 5/7/07, Karen <ekarenski-techwrl -at- yahoo -dot- com>, bemused by the thought
of technical writers earning in excess of 100K a year, wrote:

>   My question: what planet are they on? or what planet should I be moving too?

Try moving to Planet Manhattan. :-)  You're likely to double your
salary (at least), but the downside is that you'll triple your cost of
living.  That's what happened to me when I moved here.

An experienced tech writer making north of 100K a year here is nothing
unusual, and even well north of that if you have experience in certain
key areas or industries or both.

This cost of living calculator
(http://www.cityrating.com/costofliving.asp) says that $100,000 in New
York City is the equivalent of about $57,000 a year in Raleigh, NC
(for example.)   I've been living and working in NYC for the last ten
years, but grew up in Raleigh and work one week a month out of the
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, and I think that's about right.

- bc

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